Tag: museums
For my final project, I wanted to touch upon the ongoing conversation we had this semester about the controversy behind […] Read More
Would you make a good Curator for Provenance? Play this game to find out if museums would hire you! For […] Read More
How does one of the finest Greek Kraters mysteriously make its way from a previously unknown tomb to the Greek […] Read More
How important is context? I would argue that although contextual clues are an important part of understanding art, art can […] Read More
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York struck gold when Dietrich von Bothmer and Thomas P.F. Hoving purchased the […] Read More
The extravagant and mysterious Priam’s Treasures: where are they originally from, who owned them, and how have they affected the […] Read More
Pergamon Altar, detail Located in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Altar may not be as “Western” as Prussia thought. […] Read More
Finding the Bronze The Victorious Youth is a bronze statue made using the lost wax technique. Any finding of an […] Read More
A 1-billion dollar dam project. A massive freight ship. And a museum director pleading his case at a government hearing. […] Read More
Artist Michael Rakowitz’s new exhibition is full of gorgeous paper mache recreations of lost Iraqi artifacts, alongside major gaps in […] Read More
For most of my childhood, I grew up in a quintessential suburban neighborhood in New Jersey. The streets were filled […] Read More
Archaic, the Iraq pavilion at the Venice Biennale, was presented by the Ruya Foundation in 2017. The pavilion includes works […] Read More
The interior of the Chapel is lined with decorative paintings and shows cohesion through its use of strong vertical and horizontal lines.
Sophie and The Temple The Temple of Dendur was an object of my imagination. To a shorter-than-average kid, it seemed […] Read More
(Allegedly) found on a wall in dwellings in Çatalhöyük, Turkey, this painting could be the first known landscape painting done by […] Read More
In recent years, calls for the return of cultural relics acquired during the expansionist period have roused repercussions in European […] Read More
Human? Lion? Mythic-woman lioness? How can this tiny 5,000-year-old limestone anthropomorphic sculpture be so powerful yet so modern at the […] Read More
It’s the 9th century BCE, and you’re an Assyrian king. As you walk into the palace built for you, you […] Read More
The Statue of Gudea in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Gudea of Lagash Detroit Institute of Arts have […] Read More
Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Muhsin Hasan Grieves the Loss of Irreplaceable Artifacts Wild Beasts Escape Their Spotlight On the […] Read More
Why are so many of the objects we studied in this unit in European or American museums? Readings: Neil MacGregor, […] Read More
Why did millions of Americans stand in line for up to five hours to catch a glimpse of an ancient […] Read More
Everyone loves mummies. But mummies only exist because of the ancient Egyptians’ deeply felt religious beliefs about the afterlife – […] Read More
The most famous cultural property debate in the world; it’s worth thinking about why this one gets all the attention. […] Read More
Sometimes, the interests of museums are at odds with the goal of historical knowledge. Here are some of the images […] Read More
One of the most innovative and beautiful buildings in the world has meant many things to many people over the […] Read More
